The Mill City Enterprise
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ON THESCENIC NORTH SANTIAM HIGHWAY—OREGON’S EAST GROWING VACATION WONDERLAND
NIMBER I
Till MII.L ( IIY ENTERPRISE, THI KSDAY, JAN. 28. I!NH
Detroit District Completes Aerial Seeding
Phone Co.
Continues to
Show Growth
In assembling material for
this year« annual ic|»»rta Vai-
lay Telrpiiona company found
n number of indications of sub­
stantial company
and
area
growth.
A check of stations in service,
thr moat widely accepted Indi­
cation of growth, shows in ir>
crease of 5 7% in 1963 to 4 700
stationa in Silverton (2X30),
Aumsville-Tbmer
(858).
Mill
C3ty (775) and Detroit (236). I
This rate of Increase has re­
mained nearly constant for over
five years.
While this shows a steady
growth |>attern, other factors
fill In the rest of the picture of
local telephone service. Exten­
sion telephones have been In­
creasing by 25% per yesr since
I960
Color telephones have
grown by more than 45% per
year since I960 and now one
in six or 17% of all telephones
are in color.
Thr only figure found to have
drcrenoil from 1962 is payroll
While 1963 was a relatively
normal year. Hurricane Freda
had caused $5.000 In excess
labor coots for 1962. Neverthe­
less. thr Jll.M.OTK 27 payroll for
1963 came very close to the 1962
figure. A checa of payroll coats
for five years (1958-63) allows
Detroit District has just completed
a 37% increase. Just one more
indication of the
company’s aerial seeding of 438 pounds of Doug as
growth.
I Etr s< i d and 120 jxiunds of Noble Fir
Although the figures are in- ned in cut-over areas. Preparing to de­
complete; early
comparison* 1
show that revenues. Investment
per station and expenses all in­
creased in 1963. "A final ssscss-
ment of the company’s financial
condition must await toe annual
renorf t > stockholder* but the 1
I
company appears to be grow­
ing at a heulty rate.“ reported
Ixiwell E. Brown, president
Girl of the Month
Janice Gordon, daughter of
Mr and Mrs. James Gordon
was selected ax girl of the
month at Santiam High at a
recent student body meeting.
Janie, is a varsity cheer leader
ind active In all school nffnirs.
She Is also an active partici­
pant in young people’s work in
the Presbyterian church
Mehama Area
Reports Snow
By Jean Roberta
MEIfAMX The snow st. nn
this weekend hnd service crows
»»it repairing roads, telephone i
and electric wire«.
Marion county road crew
spent Saturday plowing snow
from the Little North Fork.
Gatos hill, and Wagner hill
roads, and repairing slides on
lsimpkor hill. A short 10 years
ago the IJttle North Fork road
would have been closed for Sev­
ern! days due to slides. Gates
hill would not have beer pass­
able because of snow. Traffic
is seldom delayed now due to
the vigilance of road crews.
Power was disrupted up Elk­
men
horn way, but service
work through all kinds of wen-
ther to repair broken lines
and supply jxjwer.
.. accustomed .«■
1 lomcownera
to
fine service seldom think of!
the service men bnttling wind,
rain and mix! to supply the
public with all the conveniences
they take for granted.
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No. Santiam
Group Hears
State Men
posit seed in the two hoppers < arnetf by
the ’copter are, left to right. Vem Hill,
pilot; Ronald Galdibini, I^avem Behrens
and the pilot's assistant.
Bov of the Mon+h
Jack Schulz On
Honor Roll At
Vocational School
Jack Schulz, who is attending
Salem
Technical
Vocational
school ns n dnta processing tech­
nology student has attained an
honor roll standing this past
term. Honor roll standing is
achieved by attaining a grade
point avernge of 3.5 or more
out of a possible 4 0. Schulz was
injured about two years ago
while working at Simpson Tim­
ber Co., nnd is unable to do
heavy work anymore. He is at­
tending the technical school un­
der the rehabilitation program,
When completing his course
he will be trained to hold a
supervisory job In connection
with IBM and computer work.
Mr. and Mrs. Schulz and fam­
ily live at 233 Ivy St. S. E. in
Mill City.
Bid Asked for
Santiam Park
Bids for construction of the
second phase of the Fishermans
Bend recreation site on the
North Santiam River near here
will bo opened at 3 p. m. Jan. 27
In Portland, the Bureau of Land
Management has announced.
A water distribution system
with four drinking fountains, a
kitchen shelter,
two
utility
buildings, a latrine, and three
septic tanks are all included in
the Fishermans Bend project.
•ere of cutover land.
13«- cost of aerial seeding per
acre is approximately half the
cost of planting the same acre
by hand. Aerial seeding is re­
stricted only by the amount of
available seed and favorable
areas of cutover land.
Spring planting of approxi­
mately 150 thousand trees will
start in March or early April.
Persons interested should con­
tact the Detroit Ranger Sta­
tion for additional information.
Chris
Sorensen.
exchange
student from Denmark was se­
lected recently as Boy of the
Month at Santiam high school.
Chris has adjusted easily to
life in Mill City and Santiam
and has been having a busy
month speaking
at
various
clubs and organizations. He is a
member of the honor society at
Santiam and also takes a keen
interest in sports. He makes his
home with Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Calkins.
Fire at Hub
Causes Excitement
60 Employees To
Be Honored By
Jaycees To Circulate Simpson Of Idanha
Legislative Petition
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By .h-iui ItolH-rt»
MEHAMA -A fire, confined to
a bathroom in the Hub caused
excitement in Mehama this
weekend.
Bath towels, and shelves
were burned, walls and ceiling
were charred, door scorched by I
the intense heat contained in
the little back room.
Origin of the fire was not an
electric heater, nor a cigarette,
Wcilnc-Mlay. January 22
but a match. C. M. Cooper had
North Santiam Safety Council
struck a match and flicking it dinner meeting at Last Frontier
to extinguish it. had flipped it 7. Meeting at 8.
from his hand.
| Order of Rainbow for Girls
I Half an hour later Pearl at hall at 7:30.
smelled smoke and Cooper
Friday, January 24
thinking of the match, raced for
IOOF lodge at hall, 8 p. m.
the bathroom, to be met by a
Saturday, January 25
wall of flame. Thinking quickly,
AFS sponsored Oregon Journ­
he shut the door to confine the al Juniors at Mill City Grade
1 fire to the room, and liegan school gym, 8 p. m.
throwing water. Each time he
Monday, January 27
would throw a bucketful of
Lions club dinner meeting at
water, he would close the door. hall. 6:30.
Smoked filled the room hiding
Thursday, January 30
the telephone, so while Cooper
Lions Auxliary at Betty Berg I
crawled on the floor (to enable home at 8 p. m.
him to breathe) and battled the i
Tuesday, January 28
flame in the closed room. Pearl I Marilyn Club at Tena Gra-
ran next door to ask someone ham home. Covered dish lunch-
to summon the fire department. con at 12 o’clock.
Mehama Volunteer Firemen
arrived as soon as notified, but
tile fire was already out. Fire­ Full Dress Degree
men helped in the mopping up
To Be Conferred in
process.
Coming Events
Mental Maturity
Tests Given at
Ivy Park School
Masonic Lodge Here
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Miss Ixirrnine Mickelson of
the Department of Education
from the Oregon Conference of
Sevento-day Adventists, was
at the Ivy Park school on Tues­
day, January 21. She gave men­
tal maturity tests to all stu­
dents.
This is part of the program
to help teachers know how to
best leal with problems arts-
Ing in schools here in the state. 1
Three-Day Tour
This Spring
John Mackie
To Head
Hosp. Board
Plan* are being made by
Spencer Hlllesland, director, and
members at Santiam High school
band for a three-day tour in
’’Be aware of the tourist at­ the Spring,
At a meeting of the board of
probably in late
tractions you have in your own April.
directors of Santiam Memorial
area’’ was the advice given
Purpose of the tour besides Hospital held Thursday night
North Santiam Chamber of Com­ stimulating band interest and
merce members at their recent an exciting trip for the young John Mackie of Sublimity was
-neeting at Gate«, by Paul people, is to show other school* named to the position of pres­
Sleumer, of the State Parks di­ the work being done by the ident. He take* the place of
vision of the Oregon State High­ Santiam band.
Lloyd Girod, Stayton-Mill City
way department.
Townspeople have many time* merchant who served last year.
He accompanied C. H. Grenz expressed pride in the excel­
Other officers elected were
of Salem to tell members what lence of the band and always
they would do to help set up a look forward to an opportunity Lee
Highberge r,
vice-presi­
’rogram for Lakeshore Park to hear it. When playing at dent. and G. W. Schachtsick wa*
m Detroit I-ake this summer, j current high school basketball
secretary-treasurer.
The plan follows the same line games It adds a great deal to r-elected
a* the programs in the National school and audience enthusiasm. Merton F Cox, was re-elected
°arks when ranger show slide*
William Lewellen is present­ to a three-year board term.
or moving picture* and tell of ly making plans for appearance*
Directors elected to a three
the intereating thing* about the of the band with the group to
year term by mail ballott,
area.
end their tour at the coast which was counted toe night be­
The *tate department will where the young people may
fore were Don Moffatt. Mill
'urm«h the screen and «eating, enjoy a day of fun.
City-Gates area; John Mackie
and the power to mn the slide
Present plans call for two day­ and Henry Miller for the Sub­
projector. It Is up to the Cham­ time school appearances and
limity and Ted G. Freres,
ber to furnish the slides, the two nighttime concerts by band
Kathryn Weddle, Merton Cox
operator and the narrator. Thi* students.
and Kenneth Farwell for toe
program has been carried out in
Band students will help raise Stayton area.
several parks and camp grounds money to finance the trip and
Hospital Administrator Gale
dlring the past year, and six each young person has obligat­
are using this means of enter­ ed themselves for proceeds from Christensen gave a short report
stating toe first six month* of
taining tourists and encourag­ at least a half a day’s work.
ing them to spend more time
Frances Reid is making ar­ 1963 the hospital made consid­
in the various camps of the rangement for this work; how­ erable financial gain over prev­
state.
ever Spencer Hillesland or band ious years, but the last half of
This program will be discus­ member may also be contacted. the year was much slower.
sed at the board meeting which
As plans progress for the tour He stated toe hospital was
will be held Wednesday, Feb­ announcement will be made in equipped to handle many more
ruary 5 at the Bank Cafe and this newspaper.
patient* than are treated.
also at the general meeting at thi* newspaper. This week a
He also imformed stockhold­
Gates on February 19th.
classiied ad in The Enterprise ers and board members that
President Jerry Coffman said informs readers of the willing­ when other hospitals in the area
he felt sure there were enough ness of band members to work. raised their room rates, San­
slides of the area in existence
tiam Memorial was able to hold
to provide a good 30 to 45 min­
toe line in thi* department.
ute program at Lake Shore
I Thi*
was
possible because
Campgrounds.
Santiam Memorial is debt-free.
Coffman reported that the big
He also said: “The hospital
sign on Interstate No. 5 south
j treated 4.467 out-patients during
of Salem would be erected with­
1963 tod had 1.498 Mfepat ents,
in a week.
the annual re^jort showed. There
Uses Copter on 584 Acres
The Detroit District completed
on January 12 aerial seeding
438 pounds of Douglas Fir
I of
seed anil 120 pounds of Noble
Fir seed on 581 acres of cut­
over forest land. This work
contrr.cted by Vortex Helicopter
from Chehalis. Washington. The
entire area was seeded in six
hours flight time.
Cutover areas to lie aerially
seeded ure areas with north and
north-cast slopes that provide
the maximum shade and mois­
ture for the young seedlings
during the dry summer periods.
Other areas with southern as­
pects arc hand planted in the
fall or early spring with young
trees grown in forest nurseries.
The tree seed for the aerial
seeding was collected in 1961
and 1962 from cone producing
areas on the Detroit and Cas­
cadia districts Approximately
\ pound of seed was sown per
$3.00 A Year — 10c A Copy
Clare Henness,
Worshipful
Master of Mill City Lodge No.
180 A. F. & A. M. today issued
an invitation to all Masons in
the area to attend a meeting
of the order at 7:30 Monday, ‘
January 27 when a degree
team from Pacific No. 50 of
Salem will bring a candidate
and will put on the second sec­
tion of the 3rd degree in full
dress
To a Mason who has not
seen a full dress degne team
should take this opportunity to
be present.
The Mill City Jaycees an­
nounced today that they would
start circulating petitions for an
Oregon constituional
amend­
ment to create single member
legislative sub-districts.
The Jaycees said they are
part of a statewide campaign
being carried out by chapters
throughout Oregon.
’ The object of this petition is
to make it possible for voters
to know their candidates beter
and to make the representation
in the legislature more equal for
all persons.”
said Maynard
Smith, president of the local
group.
The proposed measure would
require every county which
elects more than one state sen­
ator or representative to divide
into single member election dis­
tricts.
The Jaycees said this would
prevent candidates from win­
ning solely on the basis of
name familiarity or party desig­
nation, as sometimes now hap­
pens in counties with large pop-
lations. It would place candi­
dates more on their merits and
would provide more equal repre­
sentation for all of Oregon.
The statewide petition cam­
paign must obtain 46,200 signa­
tures to place the measure
on the November 1964 ballot.
The deadline is July 1. 1964.
Verne Shaw and Jim Hoover
have petitions.
Simpson Timber Company ha*
scheduled a dinner party for
Saturday to honor 60 em­
ployees of its Idanha Veneer
plant for their safe working
practices.
The plant has gone 3H years
without a disabling injury.
William Callahan, chairman of
the State Industrial Accident
Commission, will talk at the din­
ner at 6 p. m. in the Keg &
Platter restaurant. There also
will be sports movies and slide
films of a Canadian moose hunt,
narrated by Harry Spencer,
managerof toe Simpson plant.
were a total of 6,431 patient
days. There were 212 babies
bom and 410 surgeries perform­
ed. All figures are up from toe
1962 totals.
“The gross revenue came to
$335.388. a total of $561 over
expenses. The $13,556 in bad
debts compared to $8.198 in
1962. Some $11,859 in free care
was provided, up from the 1962
total of $6.908.”
Mrs. Albert Stevens, head of
the hospital auxiliary reported
their group had purchased a
coffee table for the waiting
room . The axul’ary is hav­
ing their annual luncheon Feb­
ruary 20th at the Lyons Metho­
dist church.
Coming To Mill City
This Is Oregon
Jaycee Week
The period of January 19-25 is
being observed throughout Ore­
gon as Jaycee Week. “Jaycee
members, in the age groups of
21 to 35 from all walks of life,
can well be proud of their ac-1
complishments,” according to a
statement issued this week by
Governor Mark O. Hatfield.
The Junior Chamber of Com-1
merce has consistently been a
leader in combating citizen in-
difference and in assuming
community obligations.
There are more than 3,500
Jaycees in 88 Oregon commun­
ities engaging in numerous com­
munity betterment activities.
The Mill City Jaycees. head­
ed by Maynard Smith, exempli-,
fy the true spirit of the organi­
zation and have a lively, active |
membership.
The above young people are part of a group of
Oregon Journal Juniors who will appear at the Mill City
Elementary gymnasium Saturday, January 25th. Top
row from left to right are Allen Gunter, Jim Groziano
and David Smith. In bottom row are Melvine Irvin and
Carol Ann Gunderson. Their appearance here is be­
ing sponsored by the American Field Service.